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| <mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 1/06/2012 |
|---|---|
| <mark>Journal</mark> | Journal of Functional Analysis |
| Volume | 262 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Pages (from-to) | 4831-4850 |
| Publication Status | Published |
| <mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Let ω1 be the smallest uncountable ordinal. By a result of Rudin, bounded operators on the Banach space C([0,ω1) have a natural representation as [0,ω1]×[0,ω1]-matrices. Loy and Willis observed that the set of operators whose final column is continuous when viewed as a scalar-valued function on [0,ω1] defines a maximal ideal of codimension one in the Banach algebra
B(C([0,ω1])) of bounded operators on C([0,ω1]). We give a coordinate-free characterization of this ideal and deduce from it that B(C([0,ω1])) contains no other maximal ideals. We then obtain a list of equivalent conditions describing the strictly smaller ideal of operators with separable range, and finally we investigate the structure of the lattice of all closed ideals of B(C([0,ω1])).